At this time, Professor Lei didn't know whether he was sad or happy, and he was happy that he didn't choose to go along with Professor Hu, otherwise don't look at himself as a person who is also receiving a political hall allowance now, but Shi Lao wants to clean himself up, but it is not a quasi.

Sadly, Professor Hu is already a pus on his head in his opinion, despicable and shameless, but after all, he is also a colleague, and there is always a feeling of sadness and sadness.

Shi Lao glanced at Professor Lei, he was still very happy about Professor Lei's statement, he really didn't see the wrong person, even if Professor Lei complained about Chu Hao, but in the face of the big right and wrong, he still insisted on the bottom line.

With a squint of his eyes, an inexplicable glint flashed in Shi Lao's eyes, since he was already determined to support Chu Hao, then he naturally had to support it to the end, and he would not let the people and things of the research institute make any stumbling blocks for Chu Hao and cause a bad impact.

In addition, the three words of the joint letter also deeply angered Shi Lao, he also came from that turbulent era, so he naturally knew the destructive power of the joint letter, and he was really a group of stupid worms.

"I have already said hello to the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the leaders of the academy, and they have made it clear that they support Chu Hao's project, and there is no need to withdraw money from your project to Chu Hao for the time being. Shi Lao said.

Professor Lei's face instantly turned embarrassed, and he was really a little crying and laughing, and he really had the idea of funding his project with Shi Lao.

However, Professor Lei is not surprised at all by the above clear support, including Professor Hu or anything, if they think that Shi Lao can't apply for funds for Chu Hao, why should they bother to be this villain.

It was precisely because they knew that Shi Lao would definitely be able to apply for funding that they were so reluctant.

After all, although Shi Lao has basically retired, he is the director of the Metal Materials Research Institute, and at most he can only exert his residual heat.

But Shi Lao was the deputy director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the vice president of the Academy of Engineering, and later served as the president of the Third National Academy of Sciences.

It's just that at best, it's just a matter of more money and less money.

However, he really saw Shi Lao's attitude towards Chu Hao now, and he was afraid that this pair of sons would be nothing more than that, fortunately, Shi Lao was no longer the deputy director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, otherwise wouldn't this fund be open to supply Chu Hao.

In the 80s of the last century, 89 academicians sent a letter to the National Natural Science Foundation of China, suggesting the establishment of a national natural science foundation, and then established a committee, which was directly subordinate to the government.

In accordance with the national guidelines, policies and plans for the development of science and technology, the Natural Science Foundation of China effectively uses the National Natural Science Foundation of China to support basic research, adhere to free exploration, and play a guiding role.

To put it simply, it is the review and funding unit of the project, of course, those that can be registered on it are all national key projects, but graphene decomposition technology can also be regarded as a national key project, after all, this is a Nobel Prize-level research project.

"Otherwise, I will allocate one million to Chu Hao for the funds here, and let him start it first. Professor Ray said tentatively.

I didn't see that Shi Laodu was already worried about his project funds, he simply sent the Buddha to the west, and the good man should be the one in the end, after all, he had already said it before, so it was better to count it quickly.

In addition, the progress of his own project is not bad, and it is nothing to take out a million first.

Shi Lao thought about it, and finally shook his head, "Don't worry, this kid hasn't moved until now, he takes his two students to read papers every day, and when he needs it, let's talk about it." ”

Professor Lei nodded, then told Shi Lao a few words about his project progress and left.

Looking at the empty office, Shi Lao's face was a little tired, after all, he was also an old man in his eighties, and he had spent a lot of energy on applying for funds for Chu Hao before, and then he had Professor Hu and them, so he was naturally a little unbearable.

After taking a nap for a while, feeling that his state was almost recovered, Shi Lao picked up the phone again, he wanted to fight for it, and the funds allocated to Chu Hao were changed from five million to eight million, preferably ten million.

After all, although once Chu Hao made progress on his side, he could immediately apply for funds from above, but if the start-up funds were sufficient, there would be enough for him, and now there was only so much he could do to help Chu Hao.

There is no way, who let Chu Hao be his chosen flag bearer, before Chu Hao grows up, he can only support Chu Hao first, just like when he was young, his teacher did.

In addition, he has confidence in Chu Hao that even if the graphene project fails, Chu Hao will sooner or later develop new materials that have attracted worldwide attention, fighting for the Chinese people and the Chinese materials science community.

There is no way, he has had enough of the humiliation caused by too much backwardness, and now Chu Hao now has hope for the future in his eyes.

In the next few days, an unprecedented change occurred in the institute, Professor Hu and a total of more than a dozen professors and researchers were actually driven away by Shi Lao, and the institute was almost broken, but under Shi Lao's strong pressure, and Professor Hu's behavior was really shameful, and slowly this matter was suppressed.

Chu Hao had also heard about this, what could he say besides being greedy enough to swallow elephants, and people's hearts being insufficient to die innocently, after all, he had long known that in the academic world, the ivory tower was not a completely pure land.

As for Meng Mao and Yin Yulian, they didn't hear anything outside the window, because they were almost overwhelmed by the sea of papers and journals.

They really understand what it means to be a popular field of research, and in any issue of a physics journal, you can find a large number of papers on graphene.

No way, the use of graphene is too wide, transistors, batteries, aerospace, image sensors, high-strength composite materials, etc., graphene can have a Genesis-like application effect.

And for any bit of progress in graphene decomposition, there will be at least thirty or fifty citations.

The number of citations in this paper does not seem to be much, but considering that the average impact factor of the three major journals is only about 30, we know how unnatural this citation is, after all, this is not a paper that graphene has been decomposed, but only a small stage of progress.

The more they looked, the more their confidence in Chu Hao sank to the bottom.

It's not that our army is too incompetent, it's that the foreign army is too powerful.

As far as they feel, almost all the methods have been experimented with by other scientists, but basically none of them have succeeded, and the most successful ones are now only decomposing them into 500 layers, and there is still a long way to go before decomposing them into graphene.

No way, graphene is too tiny, one millimeter thick graphite contains three million layers of graphene.

And only by decomposing these three million layers of graphene layer by layer and dividing them into three million layers, what is obtained is graphene, or graphite.

Only graphite with the thickness of an atomic layer is called graphene.

And how thick is such graphene, only 0.335 nanometers, which is equivalent to 1/200,000th of the thickness of a human hair, it is really too difficult to decompose an object to this extent.

But when he turned his head and looked at Chu Hao, he was looking at it leisurely, not at all like a scientific researcher, let alone a top materials scientist who was ready to participate in the graphene decomposition project, and seemed to have completely given up the development of graphene.

If Chu Hao really gave up, they could also understand it, after all, it was too difficult, would it make people desperate, but they couldn't help but feel a little depressed in their hearts.

Yin Yulian seemed to be unable to get used to Chu Hao's idle attitude, and couldn't help but speak: "Teacher Chu, otherwise let's buy some graphite first and start experimenting, at least decompose it to 10,000 layers first, and then talk about it, the method or something, the paper is there, and the equipment needed is also available in the research institute." ”

There is no special equipment for graphene decomposition equipment, or even if there is, no one will write a paper to tell them, because everyone is holding back a wave.

And graphite itself is not expensive, basically a little higher than the price of base metals, even the price of copper is not comparable, even if it is prefabricated, it will not cost much to turn it into high-directional pyrolytic graphite.

Therefore, the cost of decomposing graphene itself is not expensive.

The expensive thing is that because they can't find the real clue, everyone is like a headless fly, trying to find a way everywhere, and all kinds of ideas require a large number of people to experiment.

Although the project has not yet been approved, Chu Hao, as the deputy director, also has the authority to approve money, so he can get tens of thousands of yuan first, let them touch the graphite, and feel what it feels like to decompose the graphite, maybe they will find real inspiration in this way.

Chu Hao's eyes were still fixed, and he said without raising his head: "That kind of method is doomed to fail, what is there to experiment." ”

Yin Yulian pursed her lips, it seemed that she was about to be able to hang the oil bottle on her mouth, she really felt that she had misseen Chu Hao, what kind of young genius, maybe it was blown out.

Originally, she still had a kind of excitement to participate in Nobel Prize-level projects, but Chu Hao's attitude, which was the appearance of doing scientific research, was like coming to retire, walking around all day long, doing nothing, not even looking at the paper, she even suspected that Chu Hao's understanding of graphene decomposition was not as good as that of her and Monmodona.

Meng Mao hurriedly pulled down Yin Yulian's sleeve, threw over a paper, and said, "Look at the paper, look at the paper." ”

Yin Yulian sighed helplessly, the tutor is the sky, the tutor is the earth, the tutor is God, whatever the tutor says, what room can they resist, just read the paper.

No one noticed that the corners of Chu Hao's mouth pulled a playful smile, Yin Yulian's attitude, he naturally understood it clearly.

But he is also for their good, although these papers for him, basically nine out of ten are wrong, but there are still one percent of them with reference value, if there is really no kind of coincidence in the previous life, maybe given enough time, some methods can still make graphene.

It can even be said that the mass production of graphene depends on these methods, after all, the method that won the Nobel Prize in the previous life is too fortuitous and the cost is too low.

Low cost is not bad, but this low-cost unlimited method basically has no possibility of mass production of graphene, and it is just a laboratory method.

If it's just a laboratory method, why do you need so many engineers, all scientists.

It can be said that the task of scientists is to discover the future, and engineers are to turn what scientists have discovered into practical applications.

And let Meng Mao and Yin Yulian read more papers, how long and insightful, maybe in the future of graphene mass production technology, there will be their contribution, this is the real ability and merit.

After all, not everyone has the ability and luck to win the Nobel Prize by fighting their father.

Although his scientific research level is not as good as his management level, his level is not too bad for other Nobel laureates, otherwise the Nobel Committee would not award him the Nobel Prize.

In addition, among the Nobel Prizes, there are four pairs of father and son who have won awards, but no one is as young as him, and there are too many masters and apprentices who have won awards at the same time, and Shannan Jingsuke who Chu Hao knows is one.

What's more, after all, Meng Mao and Yin Yulian studied chemistry and physics before, but now they suddenly switched to materials science, and there are too many homework to make up, Chu Hao arranged for them to read a lot of papers, and there is no way to do it, it can be regarded as making up for them.

There is another reason, that is, Chu Hao is unwilling to spend money now.

For these scientific research funds, there has been such a big turmoil, and Chu Hao can't bear that Shi Lao is so old and works so hard to get funds for himself, so it is better to do nothing now.

After all, no matter what he does now, it's actually a waste of money, so it's better to be simple and leisurely.

In addition, now his martial arts cultivation has moved away from the point of stupid practice and crazy practice, but pays more attention to the power of the state of mind, so Chu Hao can also be regarded as cultivating himself.

Chu Hao's hand made the entire research institute seem to be confused, I don't know what Chu Hao planned in his heart, why has there been no movement at all for such a long time, and some people have even begun to criticize whether Chu Hao is in vain.

However, this made many professors and researchers happy, after all, once Chu Hao's project is opened, maybe Shi Lao will have to withdraw funds from their project, so Chu Hao should rest, it is better to rest until other scientists decompose graphene to study.

Shi Lao also called Chu Hao to the office, wanting to ask Chu Hao what his plan was, if he wanted to import any equipment, he could find a way, but he was beaten by Chu Hao and fooled over.